To meet post-pandemic expectations, retailers are challenged with transforming their operations, accelerating digital transformation, and modernizing their workforce management strategies to better empower their service agents and store associates. With 80% of customers agreeing that experience is as important as product or service, itâs imperative that you take a customer-first approach to enhance your customersâ end-to-end shopping experience and achieve new levels of loyalty. Becoming a digital-first business is a commitment to your customers. Leveraging data to understand shopper habits…
Salesforce Canada Explores the Future CMO with Seth Godin and Brian Solis
The Future CMO: Driving the Seamless Customer Experience, June 16 2021 – LINK The role of CMOs globally has been on a continuous path of transformation. The digital era has created new ways for businesses to connect with audiences on a deeper level, and in turn deliver more seamless, personalized customer experiences at scale. Todayâs CMO is uniting brand, sales, commerce, service, and loyalty to own the end-to-end customer journey. Join Seth Godin, Brian Solis, and Canadian business leaders as they…
Transforming The Employee Experience
In todayâs new world of work, we have seen a big increase in the requirement for remote working solutions. But itâs not just about being able to connect remotely. Employees need the technology to enable them thrive, remain productive and engaged. The right tools make the business run better. Industry research shows that those who have enhanced flexibility in how, when, and where they work are 60 to 80 percent more productive than those who lack that flexibility. By enabling…
Growing your business in todayâs all-digital, work-from-anywhere world
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with the Salesforce Canada team. Recently, I had a chance to present at the #PathToGrowth LIVE series along with a stellar cast: Joe Mimran, Founder, Club Monaco & Joe Fresh Jaldeep Pandya, Sr. Manager Business Transformation, Honda Canada Zahra Al-Harazi, Purpose-Driven Leadership Expert & Entrepreneur, Skillit Amber Mac, President, AmberMac Media Inc. Our theme was not only growth, but also innovation in customer experience and employee empowerment. The world has changed and…
5 Steps to Building Brand Loyalty in 2021 and 2022
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels I recently had the opportunity to deliver the keynote presentation at âDigitizing Your Customer Experienceâ organized by Traction on Demand. My topic focused on customer enchantment in a now digital-hybrid world, “Effective, Efficient, Experiential: Building Lasting Customer Loyalty.” Following my presentation, the team at Traction on Demand, summarized the key points in an eloquent, helpful article. I wanted to share it with you here… 5 Steps to Building Brand Loyalty in 2021 For anyone…
Celebrating Health Innovation at SXSW Online 2021
SXSW was one of the first industry conferences cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. My friends at Real Chemistry were among the first to support SXSW’s virtual come back. Real Chemistry hosted a unique Healthcare Media Lounge, a two-day virtual event that featured industry experts who explored the future of digital health innovation. I was invited to join an amazing panel to speak about “Five Things to About Digital Transformation in Healthcare.” My colleagues on the panel included, Ron Kim,…
Xclusive Facts about X, Rethinking Books in a Digital World, The Magic of Disney Storyboarding, and the Rise of Experience Design
Stumbled across this unfinished post, sitting in my draft folder for years. Figured, I’d blow the dust off of it and share it with you today. When X: The Experience When Business Meets Design was released in October 2015, it was ahead of its time. Executives didn’t yet understand that the world was becoming more and more digital, and with it, digital Darwinism would reshape the nature of human dynamics and market evolution. It would ultimately take a global pandemic…
What is the purpose of a logo? It’s more than designâŚitâs about purpose and experience
My friend Spencer Chen, CMO of BRD and Blockset, blew up Twitter a while back by observing that many hot tech companies have apparently borrowed their logos from previous designs. While there is a finite set of possibilities specifically for logos based on a single character, the resemblances are striking and uncanny nonetheless. Furthermore, the logos of Airbnb, Beats, Flipboard and Medium all seem to be based on designs featured in a 1989 design book, âTrademarks & Symbols of the World:…
5 Things to Know About The Rapid Acceleration of Digital Health
Following the conversation at SXSW 2021, “The Path Forward to Healthcare Innovation and Digital Transformation,” Real Chemistry published important research (and an infographic), to spotlight, “5 Things to Know About the Rapid Acceleration of Digital Health.” The study was published by Jo Ann Saitta, Global Chief Digital Officer and Manoj Narayanan, Chief Technology Officer, Real Chemistry Abstract A silver lining from the COVID-19 global pandemic is the rapid acceleration of digital health and telemedicine. In early 2021, Real Chemistry set out to…
Forging Undisruptable Bonds Between Brands and Consumers
By Mark Burgess, author, The New Marketing: How to Win in the Digital Age Thereâs an old story about two men having an earnest conversation about the future. One is nervous about whatâs coming, while the other seems oddly unperturbed. When asked how he can be so calm, the unbothered man motions for his friend to pull a book down off the shelf called âFuture Facts.â The man cracks the book and is bewildered by what he sees. âAll of the…
